Mag. Dr. Alexander Fritz
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Most Distant Object detected in the Universe at z~9.4
Credit: Gemini Observatory / AURA / Levan, Tanvir, Cucchiara.
Cucchiara et al. 2011, ApJ, 736, 7
(doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/736/1/7)
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The blast from this dying star may have occurred just 520 million years after the big bang.
Image: NASA / Swift / Stefan Immler.
Too faint: The arrow on the HST/ACS color composite shows the location of GRB 090429B.
The object is too faint to be detected on the optical images.
Credit: Levan / Tanvir / Cucchiara for NASA/Hubble